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Expert Rediscovers Painting by Renaissance Master Lavinia Fontana, One of the First Professional Female Artists
Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in decades. Despite the years and the ...
‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory naturalism and narrative sense to his work in the 13th century.
Life-sized murals discovered on walls of Pompeii home buried by volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago
In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...
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Stolen 16th-century Italian painting surfaces in Norfolk - but owner refuses to give it back to museum
A 16th-century painting which was stolen from a museum in Italy 50 years ago has surfaced in Norfolk - but the owner is ...
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‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...